Behind The Pod
Chris McCoy grew up on food stamps, free lunch, and Medicaid in Kelso, Washington - raised by a village of four McCoy men when his single mom couldn't manage alone.
He built AI governance systems that have governed $30 million over 8 years with zero constitutional violations. In 2017, he formalized something nobody had connected: Hamilton (1787) and Lamport (1982) solved the same problem 195 years apart. Same math. Same threshold. He built this into constitutional mathematics - the first mathematical framework for democratic AI governance.
Second cousin twice removed to Linus Pauling, the only person to win two solo Nobel Prizes (Chemistry, Peace). The cross-domain systematic thinking is genetic.
His test for every policy: Would this work for someone back in Kelso - AND strengthen America's position globally - AND help democratic capitalism set the rules for AI?
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